New procps package filename is procps-3.2.7-1-bin.tar.bz2 instead of procps-3.2.7-1.tar.bz2

2007-01-09 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
see subject Ciao Volker -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: git-1.4.4.4-1

2007-01-09 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
> Eric Blake writes: > A new release of git, 1.4.4.4-1, has been uploaded, replacing 1.4.4.3-1 as > the current version. No big deal but I'm wondering why all files are listed twice in o /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8/cygwin/auto/Git/.packlist Ciao Volker -- Unsubscribe info:

Arkeia

2007-01-09 Thread ignacious
I'm working with Arkeia and I'm trying to get Cygwin on a windows xp client to connect to the Linux backup server using SSH. Does anybody have experience with this? I'm able to connect to the server but I can't get the gui to come up. I can ping both ways and I've shut down firewalls on both sides

Link errors related to vtable

2007-01-09 Thread George
Hi, I am getting link errors like below when I compile my code(systemc) which is on cygwin 1.5.23 with gcc 3.4.4 (systemc is a c++ class library) I may be wrong but I feel the errors are related to the gcc in cygwin. I searched the archive but couldnt find any posts related to this. Can anyone can

Re: [BUG] cygport-0.2.7 fails to build multiple binary packages

2007-01-09 Thread Charles Wilson
Stefan Björnelund wrote: While tying to rebuild the gettext-0.15-1 package, I noticed that it did not build correctly any more. Answered here: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2007-01/msg00014.html -- Chuck -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: windows bluescreens while looking for ANSI C headers

2007-01-09 Thread Morgan Gangwere
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > Morgan Gangwere wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >>> Morgan Gangwere wrote: >>> bug #2 Make reports that it Cant find the ANSI C headers while compiling G

Re: windows bluescreens while looking for ANSI C headers

2007-01-09 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Morgan Gangwere wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Morgan Gangwere wrote: bug #2 Make reports that it Cant find the ANSI C headers while compiling GnuPG (this makes no sense to me because i have all the dev packages installed). partial output: [cli

Re: windows bluescreens while looking for ANSI C headers

2007-01-09 Thread Morgan Gangwere
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > Morgan Gangwere wrote: > >> bug #2 >> Make reports that it Cant find the ANSI C headers while compiling GnuPG >> (this makes no sense to me because i have all the dev packages >> installed). >> partial output: >> [clip] >>

Re: windows bluescreens while looking for ANSI C headers

2007-01-09 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Morgan Gangwere wrote: bug #2 Make reports that it Cant find the ANSI C headers while compiling GnuPG (this makes no sense to me because i have all the dev packages installed). partial output: [clip] Making sure you can build shared objects with ln.exe... ok checking for ANSI C headers... [blue

windows bluescreens while looking for ANSI C headers

2007-01-09 Thread Morgan Gangwere
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 bug #2 Make reports that it Cant find the ANSI C headers while compiling GnuPG (this makes no sense to me because i have all the dev packages installed). partial output: [clip] Making sure you can build shared objects with ln.exe... ok checking for ANS

Re: activestate perl on cygwin

2007-01-09 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
Kevin T Cella nycap.rr.com> writes: > Using the version of perl installed with cygwin is not really an option > since I already have scripts written that utilize windows specific modules. Out of curiousity, which modules are those? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-sim

RE: activestate perl on cygwin

2007-01-09 Thread Kevin T Cella
I don't actually install through cygwin, but use the ppm installer from Activestate. I still need to know how to solve the issue that occurs with the command I mentioned in my original post. Using the version of perl installed with cygwin is not really an option since I already have scripts written

Re: Fw: help win winxp install

2007-01-09 Thread Sam The Cat
Sam The Cat wrote: According to Morgan Gangwere on 1/9/2007 11:14 AM: this outlines my point exactly. we need to give _all_ of the mirrors not a _48_ hour but at max a _24_ hour. You need more convincing arguments if you want the current mirror policy to change. and _all_ the mirrors shou

Re: Fw: help win winxp install

2007-01-09 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Sam The Cat wrote: According to Morgan Gangwere on 1/9/2007 11:14 AM: this outlines my point exactly. we need to give _all_ of the mirrors not a _48_ hour but at max a _24_ hour. You need more convincing arguments if you want the current mirror policy to change. and _all_ the mirrors shou

Re: Re: username should be lower-case for $USER

2007-01-09 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
First - On 1/9/07, Igor Peshansky wrote: On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: > > $USER is a Windows environment variable and Cygwin doesn't change it. > It just reports what Windows says. Not true. $USER is actually a shell variable, and is (re)set by the shell (bash, ash, tcsh, wh

RE: Re: username should be lower-case for $USER

2007-01-09 Thread Irwin, Doug
Hi all, My first constructive post to this group outside of my inane question asking... > TDavid Smiley wrote: > > I am new to Cygwin. I noticed that the $USER environment variable has > > my username in upper-case. So it is "DSMILEY". > > As David said, that's because you created your usern

[BUG] cygport-0.2.7 fails to build multiple binary packages

2007-01-09 Thread Stefan Bj�rnelund
While tying to rebuild the gettext-0.15-1 package, I noticed that it did not build correctly any more. The problem is that the postinstall/preremove scripts for all but the primary binary packages are ignored, and thus the packaging step fails. I have tried to correct this fault in the attached

Re: Fw: help win winxp install

2007-01-09 Thread Sam The Cat
According to Morgan Gangwere on 1/9/2007 11:14 AM: this outlines my point exactly. we need to give _all_ of the mirrors not a _48_ hour but at max a _24_ hour. You need more convincing arguments if you want the current mirror policy to change. and _all_ the mirrors should have the same pac

Re: username should be lower-case for $USER

2007-01-09 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: > On 1/9/07, David Smiley wrote: > > > > I forgot to add, I log into a windows domain and so I can't set the > > case. Perhaps this issue only relates to windows domain logins. > > Maybe they are case insensitive because when I log into the domain, I

Re: username should be lower-case for $USER

2007-01-09 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On 1/9/07, David Smiley wrote: I forgot to add, I log into a windows domain and so I can't set the case. Perhaps this issue only relates to windows domain logins. Maybe they are case insensitive because when I log into the domain, I ALWAYS specify it in lower case. I don't think I've ever see

Re: username should be lower-case for $USER

2007-01-09 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On 1/9/07, Shankar Unni wrote: TDavid Smiley wrote: > I am new to Cygwin. I noticed that the $USER environment variable has my > username in upper-case. So it is "DSMILEY". As David said, that's because you created your username in ALL UPPERCASE when setting up the user on Windows. The only

RE: username should be lower-case for $USER

2007-01-09 Thread David Smiley
I forgot to add, I log into a windows domain and so I can't set the case. Perhaps this issue only relates to windows domain logins. Maybe they are case insensitive because when I log into the domain, I ALWAYS specify it in lower case. I don't think I've ever seen it presented to me (in Windows)

Re: Exclude cygwin folder from malware scans?

2007-01-09 Thread Shankar Unni
Fred Ma wrote: After some surfing, I haven't found any evidence of malware targetting cygwin. I'm considering excluding the massive file tree from scans (AV, SpyBot, AdAware). I'd be interested in more experienced opinions about this. Thanks. I'd still be wary of as-yet-unknown viruses that

Re: username should be lower-case for $USER

2007-01-09 Thread Shankar Unni
TDavid Smiley wrote: I am new to Cygwin. I noticed that the $USER environment variable has my username in upper-case. So it is "DSMILEY". As David said, that's because you created your username in ALL UPPERCASE when setting up the user on Windows. The only way to "fix" this for you would

bug in syscalls.cc sync()

2007-01-09 Thread Howard Chu
I was just browsing the CVSweb repository looking at the sync() implementation and noticed this small typo. It's not worth the trouble for me to download the CVS repository just for this: /* sync: SUSv3 */ extern "C" void sync () { char vol[CYG_MAX_PATH]; if (wincap.has_guid_volumes ()) /* Win

RE: My experience build the 2.6.17 kernel under Cygwin

2007-01-09 Thread Dave Korn
On 09 January 2007 18:42, Gabriel Goldstein wrote: > Can you narrow it down to a tarball containing just a single file? Or > is it > a fairly small tarchive? > -- > File attached for review. It's just a small sample fs from my dev kit > mfg. > -- Heh, if you had answered "yes" to that ques

RE: My experience build the 2.6.17 kernel under Cygwin

2007-01-09 Thread Dave Korn
On 09 January 2007 18:01, Gabriel Goldstein wrote: > 2. Cygwin does not appear to handle the advanced file system mechanics > to support mknod properly. This may be a specific thing to my > situation, but my dev kit had a sample file system. It would not untar > into cygwin without a seg fault.

RE: Fw: help win winxp install

2007-01-09 Thread Dave Korn
On 09 January 2007 17:57, Morgan Gangwere wrote: > this was a good 6 months ago, and i cant get acess to my log books (im > at school, and my log books were kept by the client). IMIR what is the > more pressing issue is that _we_ should provide a script that > _nightly_ (im serious) gets the lates

Re: Fw: help win winxp install

2007-01-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 10:57:01AM -0700, Morgan Gangwere wrote: >this was a good 6 months ago, and i cant get acess to my log books (im >at school, and my log books were kept by the client). IMIR what is the >more pressing issue is that _we_ should provide a script that >_nightly_ (im serious) get

Re: Fw: help win winxp install

2007-01-09 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Morgan Gangwere on 1/9/2007 11:14 AM: > this outlines my point exactly. we need to give _all_ of the mirrors > not a _48_ hour but at max a _24_ hour. You need more convincing arguments if you want the current mirror policy to change. >

Re: Fw: help win winxp install

2007-01-09 Thread Morgan Gangwere
On 1/9/07, Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Morgan Gangwere on 1/9/2007 10:57 AM: > an _example_ of how the mirrors have been different is that I have > found different version numbers for all of the mirrors that host > X/Cygwin (a

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: git-1.4.4.4-1

2007-01-09 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A new release of git, 1.4.4.4-1, has been uploaded, replacing 1.4.4.3-1 as the current version. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release. See also the package documentation in /usr/share/doc/git-1.4.4.4/. This release fixes a cygwin packaging bug.

Re: Fw: help win winxp install

2007-01-09 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Morgan Gangwere on 1/9/2007 10:57 AM: > an _example_ of how the mirrors have been different is that I have > found different version numbers for all of the mirrors that host > X/Cygwin (a big part of what i am doing) so i cant be shure wha

Re: Support for Baud Rates above 250000 baud?

2007-01-09 Thread Morgan Gangwere
what I would do is have say Minicom try and talk at those rates first. another option is to have a file like "newbaud.h" that looks like this: // // newbaud.h -high speed baud rate functions // #IFNDEF NEWBAUD_H #DEFINE NEWBAUD_H

My experience build the 2.6.17 kernel under Cygwin

2007-01-09 Thread Gabriel Goldstein
First I must say I love Cygwin. I have a few guys here with VM Ware and Redhat for development. I've been reluctant to go down that path because of the resources it takes up. So when it came to my first shot at kernel targeting, I decided to give Cygwin a run. While most everything worked quite

Re: Fw: help win winxp install

2007-01-09 Thread Morgan Gangwere
this was a good 6 months ago, and i cant get acess to my log books (im at school, and my log books were kept by the client). IMIR what is the more pressing issue is that _we_ should provide a script that _nightly_ (im serious) gets the latest files. an _example_ of how the mirrors have been diffe

RE: username should be lower-case for $USER

2007-01-09 Thread Morche Matthias
Change the username to lower case on Your Windows login or at least within cygwins /etc/passwd ... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Smiley Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 5:25 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: username should be lowe

Re: Compile-time detection of EOL translation mode (CLISP)

2007-01-09 Thread Reini Urban
2007/1/4, Dave Korn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On 04 January 2007 18:58, Aaron Brown wrote: > Dave Korn wrote: >> What is the /end/ result you're trying to achieve here? > > When CLISP does text output, it opens the file in binary > mode and does EOL translation itself, according to the > requested

Re: activestate perl on cygwin

2007-01-09 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On 1/9/07, Brian Dessent wrote: moka at hol dot gr wrote: > > But how do you then install modules? Just like in unix from the tarballs > that are intended for unix? Essentially, yes. Just run CPAN (perl -MCPAN -e shell) and type "install Foo::Bar" just as you would on any unix system. You do

Re: Exclude cygwin folder from malware scans?

2007-01-09 Thread Aaron Humphrey
While it's true that not many viruses will target Cygwin directly, there are some that target folders based on string matching. For instance, a few years ago my computer at work caught a virus which apparently tried to spread itself through peer-to-peer file-sharing. It looked for folders with th

Re: Updated (and new) cygport patches

2007-01-09 Thread Reini Urban
2007/1/6, Charles Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> [2] cygport-mixedmode.patch [*] NOTE: the PATCH_URI functionality in 0.2.7 is not sufficient to reproduce all of the functionality of this patch. Sometimes "upstream patches" are not distributed as .patch files. They can be .zip files that conta

Re: username should be lower-case for $USER

2007-01-09 Thread David Smiley
I know this is clearly a minor problem I am reporting, but a problem nonetheless. Ismael Valladolid Torres-4 wrote: > > David Smiley escribe: >> I am new to Cygwin. I noticed that the $USER environment variable has my >> username in upper-case. So it is "DSMILEY". On unix based hosts I log >

RE: username should be lower-case for $USER

2007-01-09 Thread Dave Korn
On 09 January 2007 16:25, David Smiley wrote: > I am new to Cygwin. I noticed that the $USER environment variable has my > username in upper-case. So it is "DSMILEY". On unix based hosts I log > into, it is always lower-case. So if I try to SSH to another machine where > I have the same login

Re: activestate perl on cygwin

2007-01-09 Thread Brian Dessent
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > But how do you then install modules? Just like in unix from the tarballs > that are intended for unix? Essentially, yes. Just run CPAN (perl -MCPAN -e shell) and type "install Foo::Bar" just as you would on any unix system. You don't have to actually know or care a

Re: username should be lower-case for $USER

2007-01-09 Thread Ismael Valladolid Torres
David Smiley escribe: > I am new to Cygwin. I noticed that the $USER environment variable has my > username in upper-case. So it is "DSMILEY". On unix based hosts I log > into, it is always lower-case. So if I try to SSH to another machine where > I have the same login name, I can't let SSH aut

Re: activestate perl on cygwin

2007-01-09 Thread moka
But how do you then install modules? Just like in unix from the tarballs that are intended for unix? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

username should be lower-case for $USER

2007-01-09 Thread David Smiley
I am new to Cygwin. I noticed that the $USER environment variable has my username in upper-case. So it is "DSMILEY". On unix based hosts I log into, it is always lower-case. So if I try to SSH to another machine where I have the same login name, I can't let SSH automatically default to $USER b

Re: 1.7.0 CVS mmap failure

2007-01-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 9 09:33, Brian Ford wrote: > On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, Christopher Layne wrote: > > > extern "C" size_t > > getpagesize () > > { > > if (!system_info.dwPageSize) > > GetSystemInfo (&system_info); > > return (size_t) system_info.dwAllocationGranularity; > > } > > > > size_t > > getsystemp

Re: 1.7.0 CVS mmap failure

2007-01-09 Thread Brian Ford
On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, Christopher Layne wrote: > extern "C" size_t > getpagesize () > { > if (!system_info.dwPageSize) > GetSystemInfo (&system_info); > return (size_t) system_info.dwAllocationGranularity; > } > > size_t > getsystempagesize () > { > if (!system_info.dwAllocationGranularity

Re: 1.7.0 CVS mmap failure

2007-01-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 7 11:51, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jan 5 15:15, Brian Ford wrote: > > On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > > > "overmap"? -v please? > > > > Posix symantics: mmap fixed region x, mmap fixed region y which is a > > subregion of x where y replaces x's mapping. > > AFAIK t

RE: CR/LF problems after upgrade

2007-01-09 Thread Dave Korn
On 09 January 2007 14:36, Eramo, Mark wrote: MARK! Please pay attention to the polite requests Eric has made, particularly this one: >> -Original Message- >> From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com > ^ > > http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR - raw

RE: CR/LF problems after upgrade

2007-01-09 Thread Eramo, Mark
-Original Message- From: Eric Blake [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 11:27 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com; Eramo, Mark Subject: Re: CR/LF problems after upgrade -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU - reformatted > -Original

Re: 1.7.0 CVS mmap failure

2007-01-09 Thread Christopher Layne
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 12:56:43PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > Okay, I understand where you're coming from. Where I'm coming from is that > > it > > is difficult to generate a test case that actually demonstrates the issue > > outside of the scope of my application. Suffice to say, I do see

Re: 1.7.0 CVS mmap failure

2007-01-09 Thread Christopher Layne
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 01:23:58PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Yes, I know. I never said you get a SEGV from mmap, but you get the > SEGV in your testapp. That's what I'm referring to. mmap fails (just > fails, no SEGV, yes, I know) because it fails to generate the filler > pages. This sh

Re: 1.7.0 CVS mmap failure

2007-01-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 9 04:04, Christopher Layne wrote: > > Real quick here and I'll follow up tomorrow. I don't get SIGSEGV > in my application ever. I get an error back from mmap saying it > cannot allocate memory when i'm simply trying to open a small > file! The original events ere posted up in that first p

Re: Fw: help win winxp install

2007-01-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 10:25:33AM -, Dave Korn wrote: >On 09 January 2007 01:06, Morgan Gangwere wrote: >>well, there is a fundamental flaw here in the distribution system then. >>i have looked at the versions from (agast!) three different mirrors and >>they have so far been completely differe

Re: 1.7.0 CVS mmap failure

2007-01-09 Thread Christopher Layne
Real quick here and I'll follow up tomorrow. I don't get SIGSEGV in my application ever. I get an error back from mmap saying it cannot allocate memory when i'm simply trying to open a small file! The original events ere posted up in that first part of the strace - which is unmodified original beh

Re: 1.7.0 CVS mmap failure

2007-01-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 9 01:04, Christopher Layne wrote: > On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 11:58:44AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > Lots of comments throughout the file... > > Unfortunately the code-path is less than clear to follow. This may be > a matter of opinion but it's fairly complex and looks to have histor

RE: make: Facing problem while compiling using make 3.80

2007-01-09 Thread Dave Korn
On 09 January 2007 10:07, Faisal Sajjad wrote: > Hi, >I am trying to compile my code using cywin. My > source code has several directories each having > makefiles which gives the rules to compile files > contained in the folder. When i m compiling, make is > throwing an error: > Serious error:

RE: Fw: help win winxp install

2007-01-09 Thread Dave Korn
On 09 January 2007 01:06, Morgan Gangwere wrote: > well, there is a fundamental flaw here in the distribution system then. > i have looked at the versions from (agast!) three different mirrors > and they have so far been completely different. It would have been helpful if you said *which* mirro

make: Facing problem while compiling using make 3.80

2007-01-09 Thread Faisal Sajjad
Hi, I am trying to compile my code using cywin. My source code has several directories each having makefiles which gives the rules to compile files contained in the folder. When i m compiling, make is throwing an error: Serious error: C3052E: couldn't read file C3050U: Compilation aborted. St

Re: CR/LF problems after upgrade

2007-01-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 8 21:27, Eric Blake wrote: > http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU - reformatted > > > -Original Message- > > From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com > ^ > > http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR - raw email munged > > According to Eramo, Mark on 1/8

Re: 1.7.0 CVS mmap failure

2007-01-09 Thread Christopher Layne
> Also, check this out: > > http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2003/10/08/55239.aspx Meant to also include: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/125713 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

Re: 1.7.0 CVS mmap failure

2007-01-09 Thread Christopher Layne
On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 11:58:44AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Lots of comments throughout the file... Unfortunately the code-path is less than clear to follow. This may be a matter of opinion but it's fairly complex and looks to have history in it. > > In the 2nd strace, I changed the mmap

Re: Support for Baud Rates above 250000 baud?

2007-01-09 Thread Brian Dessent
David le Comte wrote: > I am running Cygwin on a PC that is running Windows XP. My Cygwin > version is "CYGWIN_NT-5.1" and it was downloaded and installed late last No, it's not. The output from uname tells us nothing about which version of Cygwin (or any of the other of dozens of packages you